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Lance Richardson in conversation with Caroline Baum
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Lance Richardson in conversation with Caroline Baum


Time & date

12:30pm - 1:30pm, 6th March 2026


Location

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts View map

280 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW 2000


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Tickets $11.90 for friends and non-members or free for SMSA members

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The intriguing story behind the writer, the seeker, the spy - Peter Matthiessen

Join us for a fireside chat with Lance Richardson & Caroline Baum about Peter Matthiessen - Writer. Seeker. Spy

 

Lance & Caroline take a fine toothed comb to the extraordinary life of Peter Matthiessen, who led a life of such improbable scale it reads like invention.

From co-founding The Paris Review while undercover for the CIA, to a restless flight into the wilds of the Amazon, the Himalayas, Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Everglades, his narrative defies a single shelf. His magnum opus, The Snow Leopard, was less a search for a spotty cat than a relentless, spiritual inquiry into meaning within a fractured modern world.

Join us as Caroline and Lance give us a glimpse into a life less ordinary!

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True Nature
The first major biography of Peter Matthiessen, celebrated author of The Snow Leopard, founder of the Paris Review, towering figure of 20th-century American literature
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